Snap-button or fastener.



E. A. JANTZER.

SNAP BUTTON OR FASTENER- APPLlCATION FILED JULY 7. 1915.

1,225,818., Patented May 15, 1917.

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.ELSIE A. JANTZER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SNAP BUTTON on FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 15, 1917.

Application filed July 7, 1915. Serial No. 38,508.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELsin A. JAnTznR, a citizen of the United States,residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, haveinvented certaln new and useful Improvements in Snap Buttons orFasteners, of which the followlngis a specification, reference being hadtherein to the accompanying drawing. I

This invention relates to an improved snap fastener. The object is toprovide a fastener having a male element and a female element which canbe readily attached respectivcly to sections of fabric or similarmaterial, attached without requiring stitching or needle work, and canbe readlly detached when desired.

Figure 1 is a plan View of the wire fastener part of the female orsocket element.

Fig. 2 is a plan of the sheet metal section.

Fig. 3 is a perspective showing the sheet metal part and the wirefastener attached together.

Fig. 4 shows the female member secured to a fabric.

Fig. 5 is a plan of the wire fastener for the male element.

Fig. 6 is a top View of the sheet metal for the male element.

Fig. 7 shows the sheet metal of Fig. 6 secured to the fastener andhaving the point ed wires turned downward.

Fig. 8 shows the male or stud element secured in position on the fabric.

Fig. 9 is a section on a larger scale showing the two elements securedtogether.

In the drawings I have illustrated the parts on an enlarged scale sothat the de tails can be readily shown and understood. The articles areordinarily about one-fif' teenth the size indicated in the drawings.

Each element of the fastener comprises a binding or securing device toengage with a fabric and a sheet metal section secured thereto.

The female or socket element of the fastener or snap is shown in Figs.1, 2, 3 and 4. Fig. 1 illustrates the binding part, composed of fourwire sections 1, 2, 3, at, and arranged in such way as to form at thecenter a square or rectangle, the ends of each of the wires projectingbeyond the rectangle. The inner end parts of each wire are indicated by6, and the outward projecting parts are indicated by 5. These aresecured together at the contacting or intersecting points by solder, asat 7, or in any other suitable way. 8 indicates a'section of sheetmetal, illustrated as square. At the center it is stamped or otherwiseformed with an aperture 9, The metal at the edge of the aperture ispressed away from the plane of the sheet to form an elasticconcavo-convex rim. In Fig. 2 the dotted lines indicate the lines alongwhich this sheet is to be subsequently bent. This sheet 8 is laid uponthe rectangular part 6 of the wire fastener in such way that thediagonals of the sheet 8 will each be at right angles to two of the endbars 6. The projecting parts of the sheet are then bent at the lines 11,each being carried around one of the end bars 6 of the wire. The section1?. lies under the central square part lat of the sheet. The extremepoint or tip 13 at each corner of the sheet is carried up to theaperture 9, and then bent outward and down under the square part 14.After the sheet part 8 is secured in place upon the fastener theprojecting end parts 5 of the fastener are then bent at right angles tothe plane of the sheet 8. The device can now be attached to a fabric 15.The points 5 are thrust through the fabric and are then bent at rightangles to their second position, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 4.This firmly fastens the female element to the fabric.

The male or stud element and its parts are shown in Figs. 5, 6, 7 and 8.Here a four point fastener is provided substantially the same as that inFig. 1 for the female element. A square section of sheet metal 18initially similar to that indicated by 8 is taken, and a button head 19is formed by swaging or spinning, this being shaped to have a reducedneck at 20. This sheet 18 is then laid upon the fastener illustrated inFig. 5 and the corner parts are bent around the inner ends of the wires23. The part 26 is turned under the square central part and the cornerpoints at 27 are turned up into, and clenched at, the inner end of thebutton part 1.9. Then the projecting pointed ends 24: of the fastenerare turned down as indicated in Fig. 7 so that they can be forcedthrough a fabric 28. After passing through the fabric they are bent upso as to clench tightly the plate 18 with its button head, the pinslying on the under side of the fabric.

It will be seen that both elements of the fastener can be readilyattached to any ordinary fabric and are therefore available for use insnap fastening the overlapping or ad jaceut edges of garment fabrics.Either e ement can be detached when desired and replaced by another.

N0 stitching or cutting of the thread is required for either securingthem in place or removing them.

What I claim is:

1. In a snap fastener, a socket element for receiving and engaging withthe stud element,co=mprising a securing device formed of wire arrangedto provide a rectangle with sides 6, 6, rigidly secure/l together an dpoints 5 projecting from the of the rectangle, a socket plate 8 formedwith a central socket aperture and fitted to the said wire rectangle andhaving its corner portions bent around said sides 6 and brought to theedge of the said central socket aperture and the extreme corner tipsbent outward from said edge, and a stud element having a contracted neckand an expanded sheet metal head adapted to be passed through theopening in the socket element and to engage with the bent corner partsof the plate thereof.

2. The herein described snap fastener having in combination a socketelement and a stud element each formed of a securing device and arectangular plate, each securing device having a wire rectangle formedof wires rigidly secured together with the pointed ends of the wiresextending laterally from the corners of the rectangle, and saidrectangular plate being arranged to have its sides respectively inclinedto the sides of the rectangle and having its corner portions bent aroundthe side wires of the rectangle, the projecting wire points at thecorners being adapted to be bent so as to project at right angles to theplane of the plate, the plate of the socket element having a centralaperture with the extreme corners of the plate bent in to the edgethereof, and the stud element having a central integral narrow rock and.a wider button head, substantially as set forth.

3. A snap fastener having two elements adapted to detachably engage witheach Copies of this patent may be obtainedfor five cents each, byaddressing the Commissioner of Patents,

other, one of said elements comprising a wires being adapted to be bentto lines approximately at right angles to the plane of the sheet metalto permit insertion into a fabric and adapted to be clenched on the sideof the fabric opposite to the plate.

'41:, A snap fastener having two elements adapted to detachably engagewith each other, one of'said elements comprising a multiple pointedframe of diverging wires each wire having its inner end rigidly securedto an adjacent wire and all the wires adapted to have their divergingpointed ends passed through a fabric for clenching, and a sheet metalplate secured to said frame having a passage through the plane of theplate, said plate being secured to said frame by bends in the sheetmetal carried around the wires, and having projections adapted to bebent inward to the edge of the passage and then bent outward to positionthe bends therein at points adjacent said edge. 7

5. A snap fastener having two elements adapted to detachably engage witheach other, one of said elements comprising a multiple pointed frame ofwires each of said wires having its inner end rigidly secured to anadjacent wire and all the wires adapted to h ve their pointed endspassed through a fabric for clenching, and a sheet metal plate securedto said frame by bends in the sheet metal carried around the inner endsof the frame wires, and said plate being formed with means for engaginga companion element.

in testimony whereof, I affix my signa ture, in presence of twowitnesses.

ELSIE A. JANTZER. Witnesses:

THEODORE JANTZER, V HORATIO G. KING.

Washington, I). C.

